Re: [cobalt-users] DNS Serial Numbers

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On 1/8/03 7:38 AM, "Gerald Waugh" wrote:

>> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 12:41:00 -0000, Overall, Matthew (LNG-MDHUK) wrote:
>> 
>>> Can anyone help me out with this - I have taken on a domain name with a very
>>> high serial number - creating the site on my RAQ gives a much lower serial
>>> number
>>> - how do I change the RAQ to use a higher number or will I have to wait for
>>> the
>>> old name record to expire fully?
>> 
>> according to O'Reillys "DNS and BIND" you should set your serial to "0",
>> which causes the clients to synchronize that zone (if the client uses at
>> least version 4.9 of bind).
>> 
>> You will have to do that manually with an editor in the corresponding
>> /etc/named/pri.domainname.com and restart bind via "/etc/rc.d/init./named
>> restart" (maybe a reload is sufficient as well).
>> 
>> After the secondary NS synchronized you can let the cobalt rewrite the config
>> with it's own serial# by changing something in the nameserver settings in the
>> GUI (or by calling /usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/dns/index.cgi manually from
>> the command line).
>> 
> 
> IIRC setting the serial number to 0 on the master no longer works in
> recent bind versions.

Shouldn't the serial number be done as the date +??
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